How Torquay Votes
On 4 July 2024 Liberal Democrat Steve Darling was elected as Member of Parliament for Torbay. This was an atypical...
“Moral pollution needs a solution”: Torquay’s Culture Wars
During the ‘Swinging Sixties’ Torquay found itself in the frontlines of a series of culture wars.These were debates between groups...
Fear the Workhouse
During the course of the nineteenth century Torquay grew to become the richest town in Britain. Many millionaires lived or...
Torquay’s Comedy Heritage
“I think of Torquay as being the home of British comedy. The first time I saw Bruce Forsyth was in...
Fighting Boney: Torbay’s Pressed Men
During the wars against Napoleon the residents of Torbay could be forced into joining the Royal Navy.It wasn’t always...
Torquay Cemetery. A garden town for the dead
Torquay’s burial grounds change as the town changes.As Torquay developed during the nineteenth century, the town’s traditional burial grounds of...
The Fleet: Mother of Torquay
The Fleete Mill in 1793 by Reverend JB Swete: just about where WH Smiths now isBehind Torquay harbour two...
Italian villas, French apartment blocks & Spanish haciendas: Torquay’s Property Patchwork
Vane Tower on the skyline above the harbourside In a ten-minute drive around Torquay, you can pass nineteenth and twentieth...
Searching for a mermaid’s tears on a Torbay beach
"Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don’t think so… they’re retired mermaids”, Milton Jones Mermaids have...
Why Torquay doesn’t have a pier
Paignton has a pier; Teignmouth has a pier. But Torquay does not.We do, of course, have Haldon Pier, built in...
Torquay’s Pubs: an imbibing evolution
Back in 1774 an Exeter printer by the name of Andrew Brice journeyed to the coast and found that “Tor...
Towards a Torbay of many faiths and of none
On the 6th of November 1914 a headline in the Western Times read, ‘Col. Burn’s Late Son: Torquay’s Expression of...
Why Torquay didn’t become Britain’s Las Vegas
Why Torquay looks like this…… & not like Atlantic City which has one of the highest crime rates in...
Back to the Future in Torquay
In 1892 Torquay was granted borough status by Royal Charter.The resort then adopted the motto ‘Salus et Felicitas’, or...
See Torbay’s ‘The System’ on the Big Screen
For anyone who hasn’t seen The System on the Big Screen, The Silver Screen Film Club is showing the...
St Michael’s Chapel Open Day
Every September thousands of volunteers across England organise events in the nation’s largest festival of history and culture. It's an...
Regenerate Torquay Town Centre before building on more green fields?
As Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces that she will bring back compulsory housebuilding targets, can we note that we still have...
Climate and Community in Focus at CentrePeace
CentrePeace, a community centre in the heart of Paignton is excited to be running a series of free creative workshops...
How Minnesota’s Great Seal ended up in Torquay
This is the story of how the precious Great Seal of the US State of Minnesota vanished for 20 years...
Another 878 unpaid Carers receive support in Torbay
Every week more local unpaid Carers (Family or friends of someone who cannot manage without their support) are joining Torbay...
